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06/02/2024
Leeds Historian Dr Kevin Grady discusses the return of his lunchtime lecture series.
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I'm Dr Kevin Grady, I'm a Leeds historian, I was director of Leeds Civic Trust for 30
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years, written several books on the history of the city and just an in retirement and
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all-round enthusiast for Leeds both today and in the past.
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The Leeds in your Lunch Hour Lectures are returning every Wednesday in February at 1pm
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in Leeds Minster and they're free to all. But when and where did they begin?
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In 2007 we were celebrating the 800th anniversary of Leeds being a town with the creation of
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Brigate as the big market street and I sort of thought actually that it would be good
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to get out and persuade people who worked in the city centre in particular just to get
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a taste of some aspects of Leeds which I knew about, quite popular lectures, not too academic
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and so they worked tremendously well so within, I don't know, sort of three or four weeks
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we got 250 people turning up in the church which was absolutely astonishing. So it's
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gone on for the last 17 years, these days the lectures are at Leeds Minster and it's
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like an occasion really, there's a vibe to it and so it's really pleasing to do them.
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The first theme this year is the historic panoramas and prospects of Leeds of the following
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week detailing Mr Cossin's and his remarkable new and exact plan of the town of Leeds in
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1726. I start off in the 17th century with a wonderful
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panorama by William Lodge that showed the city from the south, you know, with all sorts
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of interesting features. Then I move into the 18th century when we're tremendously lucky
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that several panoramas were drawn of Leeds, again showing its development, new buildings
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appearing, whereas now of course the skyline is being dominated by these amazing high-rise
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apartment blocks. Wednesday the 21st of February we'll take
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a look at the rise and fall of Leeds' shopping centres and department stores, with Wellington
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Street, Wellington Place and Whitehall Road being the focus of the last lecture.
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In the 1960s there was quite a lot of damage done to the city centre with rather ugly concrete
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buildings that went up. We then went into a phase of the Leeds look with a lot of red
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brick and slate roofs, but then from the 1990s there's been a dramatic improvement. The Corn
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Exchange here revitalised, the city market revitalised, wonderful things happening in
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the arcades restored, and what we now have is a very interesting mix, some good modern
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buildings with the wonderful Georgian and Edwardian Victorian heritage. So Leeds is
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actually a fascinating city. So it's Leeds in the Old Lunch Hour lectures every Wednesday
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in February, start at one o'clock, you don't have to book, you just roll up at Leeds Midster
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and I think people go away having had their spirits raised and go and tell their friends
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about things about Leeds that they hadn't known before.
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